Acting

Matti Kuusla

Born — Died

1933-08-07 — 2018-11-22

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Matti Kuusla was a Finnish actor and screenwriter. He was well known for acting small supporting roles in TV and movies.

Known for

The Doll Merchant poster
6.2

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.

The Doll Merchant

1955

The Cold Old Days poster
7.0

Restorer stumbles upon ghosts in an old castle.

The Cold Old Days

1965

Äl' yli päästä perhanaa poster
7.0

In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with three possible films, which they also act in themselves. The topics chosen, in the spirit of Finnish nationalism, are the life of Colonel Sandels, moonshining, and the 1974 presidential election.

Äl' yli päästä perhanaa

1968

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä poster
4.6

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä

1957

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut poster
6.5

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnate Tömstet, from captivity and a forced marriage to Kurt. Irma achieves her dream of becoming a pop star, with Isaskar's help.

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

1960

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet poster
4.6

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

1991

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 19 titles

The Doll Merchant poster
6.2

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.

The Doll Merchant

1955

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä poster
4.6

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä

1957

The Unknown Soldier poster
7.2

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

The Unknown Soldier

1955

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen poster
5.0

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

1959

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa poster
5.5

Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa

1957

Vääpeli Mynkhausen poster
5.0

Professor Visaoksa's spoiled city kids are sent to the countryside to live with their strict general uncle and learn some manners. The general's buddy, who tells the kids war stories and is nicknamed Sergeant Mynkhausen, finally gets the kids under control.

Vääpeli Mynkhausen

1957

Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin poster
5.0

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.

Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin

1956

Villi Pohjola poster
6.8

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

Villi Pohjola

1955

Murheenkryynin poika poster
7.5

Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same time, another Heikki Aaltonen enlists, who is completely different in character from the future small farmer Aaltonen. The constant confusion between the men's names, the overprotective attitude of their parents, and Helvi's admission to a domestic science school near the regiment are all factors that tend to disrupt Heikki's military service.

Murheenkryynin poika

1958

Taas tyttö kadoksissa! poster
6.3

Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.

Taas tyttö kadoksissa!

1957

Äidittömät poster
8.0

Professor Derek Wytycky and his son Hans, who are immersed in the study of Indian poetry, wake up one day to find that the mother of the family is nowhere to be seen. When their housekeeper Gloria also leaves, having had enough of the absent-minded men, father and son hire private detective Mademoiselle Catherine Anaconda to investigate Mrs. Wytycky's disappearance.

Äidittömät

1958

Rakas lurjus poster
2.8

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.

Rakas lurjus

1955

Autuas eversti poster
8.0

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the runaway lovers. In the end, the funeral turns into a wedding and honeymoon.

Autuas eversti

1958

Kahden ladun poikki poster
9.0

Young Anna marries Tuomas, an old widower. Tuomas reluctantly sells his forest to the boss of Ruukki and is forced to take in a group of loggers, among whom the handsome womanizer Humu begins to seduce the young mistress of the house.

Kahden ladun poikki

1958

Herra sotaministeri poster
7.0

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Problems in the performance of his duties lead Kalle to a court martial, and he resigns from his ministerial post to start a new life with his neighbor Leena.

Herra sotaministeri

1957

Vihdoinkin hääyö… poster
9.0

Elina and Pentti are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary and have invited Elina's cousin Ann-Mari and her husband Teemu to their village. During the evening, the group begins reminiscing about the past, revealing Elina's brief romance with Martti before she got married.

Vihdoinkin hääyö…

1957

Evakko poster
7.1

Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. The film has a surprisingly perky tone for the subject matter.

Evakko

1956

Laivan kannella poster
7.0

Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.

Laivan kannella

1954

1918 poster
8.0

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.

1918

1957

Behind the camera